Barbara Kirkmeyer

Jewell Elementary School teachers and staffs welcome students during the first day of school in Aurora, Colorado on Tuesday, August 8, 2023. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

Democrats are proposing a dangerous income tax increase under the guise of funding education (抖阴ap)

March 24, 2026 at 9:15 a.m.

Colorado families are being asked to believe a familiar lie; the only way to fund education is to let politicians take and keep more of your money -- forever.

Gov. Jared Polis delivered his state of the state address at House chamber of Colorado State Capitol building in Denver on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

We don’t need a special session; We need an intervention (抖阴ap)

August 18, 2025 at 3:23 p.m.

I'll say it plainly: we don't need a special session -- we need an intervention.

Craig Jones fills a prescription at Basin Pharmacy in Basin, Wyo., on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Mike Clark)

Colorado hospitals profit from a prescription drug discount program. We should know how much. (抖阴ap)聽

April 26, 2025 at 5:25 a.m.

Senate Bill 124 requires hospitals to disclose profits from the 340B program, a prescription drug discount program that was meant to reduce costs for services to patients, but has expanded...

A Medicaid sign is displayed in the hallway at Clinica Family Health on Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Adams County, Colorado. The health clinic, where 57 percent of patients were on Medicaid at one point, was forced to shutter some services and lay off nearly 50 people due to pandemic-era Medicaid programs ending for patients, leaving many uninsured and the clinic feeling the effects. (Photo by Eli Imadali/Special to The Denver Post)

抖阴ap: Medicaid is in crisis, and the safety net insurance is critical to Colorado

November 20, 2024 at 10:37 a.m.

"We鈥檙e angry about it. And you should be too because whether or not you or someone you love relies on Medicaid, the whole health care system is struggling as a...

A home for sale on S. Cherry St. near Cornell Ave. in Denver on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024.

抖阴ap: Unveiling our bipartisan response to Colorado’s housing crisis

February 10, 2024 at 5:38 a.m.

鈥淭ogether鈥� is the best description for the historical, bipartisan way we have worked with Gov. Polis to draft legislation that will incentivize cities and counties to design their futures and...

Colorado Governor Jared Polis announced plans to reduce property tax rates and implement long-term protections to prevent future property tax increases during a press conference at the Colorado State Capitol on May 1, 2023 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

抖阴ap: Prop. HH is a tax increase that wrecks our Taxpayer鈥檚 Bill of Rights

October 11, 2023 at 10:52 a.m.

Proposition HH is聽of the most blatant bait-and-switch schemes聽ever placed on the Colorado ballot. 聽An examination of its details shows it is聽cynically crafted,聽deeply deceptive and must be defeated.

Gov. Jared Polis speaks to a crowd on the west steps of the Colorado State Capitol to unveil a land use and housing package on March 22, 2023. The land use and housing package includes allowing landowners to build accessory dwelling units and promote development along transit corridors. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

抖阴ap: As Gov. Polis once said, local control of land use matters

April 25, 2023 at 4:52 p.m.

With all due respect to Colorado's governor, Jared Polis, we recently examined with great interest some wisdom that he provided before he took office.

Kaysen Ziegler, a sixth-grader at Westview ...

Guest Commentary: Colorado students suffered the “COVID slide,” we must measure how bad it is

February 16, 2021 at 9:40 a.m.

Not testing, not measuring a student抖阴ap academic growth and progress, and not looking after the students鈥� educational health is a disservice to these children and amounts to abandonment.

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